Dartmouth cross-country skier dies at Vermont event
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}February 1, 2014: This photo released by Dartmouth Varsity Athletics Communications shows cross-country ski team member Torin Tucker. Tucker died Saturday while competing at the Vermont Carnival. (AP Photo/Dartmouth University, Ruff Patterson)
Dartmouth College says that a 20-year-old member of its cross-country ski team died at an event in Vermont.
Dartmouth spokesman Rick Bender says that Torin Tucker died while competing at the Vermont Carnival Saturday. Tucker is a junior from Sun Valley, Idaho.
Bender says that the junior died at the scene after attempts to resuscitate him failed. The cause of his death is still under investigation.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The team returned to campus and won't complete in the rest of the Vermont Carnival.
Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon shared the news through a campus-wide email and urged students, faculty and staff to contact the school's safety and security department if they or someone they know needs to speak with a counselor or chaplain.